Last night I resurrected a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 that I had bought on Ebay last December by replacing the dead battery, replacing the 160GB hard drive with a 1TB hard drive, and swapping out the original 512MB RAM modules with 3GB of new RAM.
Then I installed MX Linux 18.1, because I had it on a thumb drive I had used to salvage data off of a neighbor's PC before they wiped it and gave it to their grandson to tinker with. (I offered to install Linux for them, but apparently the kid's a gamer and insists on Windows.)
Everything went well, I got Emacs installed, and now I've got a badass old laptop. So does my wife; she got the T430s I had been using.
Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux
Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux
ThinkPad T430s (8GB RAM, 1TB HDD)
ThinkPad T60 (3GB RAM, 512GB SSD)
ThinkPad T60 (3GB RAM, 512GB SSD)
Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux
...awesome...great work!
Regards, jonnken...since Feb 2019
Dell Latitude E6440...Intel Core i5-4310M...240G SSD...MX-19.4_x64
Dell Optiplex 755...Intel Core2 Duo E8500...300G HD...MX-19.4_x64
Dell Latitude E6440...Intel Core i5-4310M...240G SSD...MX-19.4_x64
Dell Optiplex 755...Intel Core2 Duo E8500...300G HD...MX-19.4_x64
Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux
Cool :) I love Thinkpads :)
Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux
MX-18 runs really well on my T-60
Production: 5.10, MX-23 Xfce, AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core, GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2, 16 GB, SSD 120 GB, Data 1TB
Personal: Lenovo X1 Carbon with MX-23 Fluxbox and Windows 10
Other: Raspberry Pi 5 with MX-23 Xfce Raspberry Pi Respin
Personal: Lenovo X1 Carbon with MX-23 Fluxbox and Windows 10
Other: Raspberry Pi 5 with MX-23 Xfce Raspberry Pi Respin